Comments on: Internet blocking will still not protect our children http://www.crimperman.org/2012/08/31/internet-blocking-will-still-not-protect-our-children/ Not ashamed of the Gospel Fri, 17 May 2013 17:54:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Crimperman http://www.crimperman.org/2012/08/31/internet-blocking-will-still-not-protect-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-13741 Crimperman Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:46:22 +0000 http://www.crimperman.org/?p=1161#comment-13741 Hi Sara, I think the analogy sort of works except in this case they’re not blocking access to whole pool just the deep end (where kids can drown). The problem is they are saying if you have a child who is under 5ft tall you can either give all of you or none of you access to the deep end. Thanks for the comment.

]]> By: Sara http://www.crimperman.org/2012/08/31/internet-blocking-will-still-not-protect-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-13740 Sara Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:11:15 +0000 http://www.crimperman.org/?p=1161#comment-13740 Been thinking (partly) about this for PhD purposes. There’s a very helpful analogy one can use for the ‘block everything’ approach. Stop me if you have heard this one before. Swimming pools. Kids drown in swimming pools. So what is the safest option? Should we fence them off, and not let our kids go near water? Or… do we teach them to swim, so the pool becomes a safer place to have fun?

Am not a parent, so prepared to be shot down on this one. But this works for me, and I’m anti-the campaign.

]]> By: Crimperman http://www.crimperman.org/2012/08/31/internet-blocking-will-still-not-protect-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-13737 Crimperman Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:28:44 +0000 http://www.crimperman.org/?p=1161#comment-13737 On the surface it does seem like something is better than nothing but that does presume we have nothing now. What we have now is various technoglogical solutions (such as OpenDNS) which are available at no cost to parents and – because they are elective – have less of the false security blanket side to them. Education should be the first step but not education in “the dangers of the Internet” but education in taking an active and participative interest in your child’s online life. Of course it’s easy for me to say this as my children are not (yet) at the point where they would regard my interest as interference ;)

]]> By: Andy http://www.crimperman.org/2012/08/31/internet-blocking-will-still-not-protect-our-children/comment-page-1/#comment-13736 Andy Fri, 31 Aug 2012 13:32:37 +0000 http://www.crimperman.org/?p=1161#comment-13736 I’m tempted to wonder if something is better then nothing.., as long as education goes hand in hand with any sort of new “porn switch”?

But I guess that if any new policies need to go hand in hand with education, maybe we should educate parents how to manage what we have now, instead of forcing new policies?

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